There’s no way to convey just how insane a task it is to meticulously inspect and juggle 15 years worth of completely disorganized photos, videos and text files across over50 hard drives and back up OVER 6O TERABYTES without losing any files in the process.

And then of course having to RE-CAPTUREAND RE-ORGANIZEHUNDREDS OF VIDEO TAPES due to a weird capture problem. Thousands of hours tackling literally millions of files head on. Had to be done. Never be daunted!

One afternoon, inspiration struck and a schedule for the GPP was committed to paper:

Concurrently, the Snowden revelations had begun, and I followed them intently.

"You can't wait around for someone else to act. I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act."

But while the world speculated on solutions that revolved around improved encryption and updated privacy laws, I recognized the futility of these efforts, knowing that the only permanentsolution was the implementation of Total Public Transparency, a concept I’d been contemplating for the past year or so…

In late September, as the magnitude of the revelations continued to mount, and NOT A SINGLE PERSON had stepped forward to propose the solution that to me was so glaringly obvious, I realized that I would have to rise to the challenge…

It would appear that we're at a crossroads, my friends, wherein the internet could be either the key to our ultimate…

It was an epic undertaking, generating breakthrough after breakthrough as I pieced it all together, including the monumental realization that the key to Total Decentralization was The Liberation Of All Information.

While conducting some final research on the history of Open-Source software and thinking that it would be pretty cool to coordinate the release of the rough draft with the 30th anniversary of the Free Software movement, there it was… 30 years to the DAY!

In a presumably prophetic twist of fate, thirty years to the DAY, I have finally completed the rough draft of a Radical…

Then came another last-minute opportunity: to deliver the first-ever DDP to Montreal for a French TV pilot featuring the illustrious Kyle Macdonald (of One Red Paperclip fame). All NY boomboxes were promptly slammed into a minivan and driven 600kms northward!

What began as a quick jaunt home to visit my family and round up some errant video footage had become a crazed five-week odyssey that generated many additional hours of video footage that would now have to be dealt with. A very serious first-world problem.

During my time away, Bitcoin had exploded in value, from $120 to nearly $400 per coin. My crazy dream that the few BTC I’d purchased on credit might appreciate enough to fund the completion of the DDP documentary was beginning to look not so crazy after all…

The future had finally caught up and the term “Decentralization” was now popping up all over the internet. People were beginning to see the world in terms of “Centralized” and “Decentralized”. Bitcoin was changing everything. A monumental shift in perceptions.

Since being introduced to #Bitcoin back in the Summer of 2011, I've been an ardent believer and advocate. During the 2.5…

By this point I’d gained a much better understanding of the revolutionary “block chain” technology underpinning the Bitcoin protocol and had put together an info package to aid people in understanding the Decentralized currency revolution (email if you’d like one).

This new #Bitcoin video features some very clever tech-oriented businessmen explaining the staggering potential and…

This new knowledge enabled me to envision exactly how the “Open Network” proposed in my manifesto would function- every individual would be represented as a “coin” and the “block chain” would be a Decentralized record of all human action in the public sphere!

Concurrently, I continued to organize an ever-expanding mountain of footage and files across an ever-increasing number of hard drives, in anticipation of Blair (our video guy)’s impending arrival back in Vancouver to help me edit the DDP documentary.

It was another relentless streak of 16-hour days at the computer, broken only by a top-secret Christmas Party we threw for Canada’s preeminent tech startup Hootsuite:

Blair arrived shortly thereafter, and we immediately set to work, releasing a long-overdue Kickstarter update, invading the Vancouver Airport, and experimenting with a crazy new funding scheme dubbed “Busking 2.0” that creatively incorporated both Bitcoin and the unlikely new object of our absolute veneration- DOGECOIN!

In late January, after many further revisions, including the addition of a revolutionary new “Decentralized Application Platform” known only as “Ethereum“, Privacy Is The Enemy was finally released, coinciding hilariously with “International Data Privacy Day”.

Knew I was waiting for something, and here it is.. the perfect day to release "Privacy Is The Enemy" 🙂

I really don’t want to spend undue amounts of time promoting / discussing / debating the theoretical merits of implementing “a completely Open and Decentralized society”, as that is not my true passion and I have way too much on my plate already.

I’m really hoping that the idea will self-propagate and I’ll be free to devote my energy and determination exclusively to the courageous continuation of The Party Revolution; the greatest contribution I can possibly make to the Greater Decentralization Gambit!

Whatever should transpire, my mantra will remain forever as follows!

Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense…